Research Interests
- Cognition & Cognitive Development
- Language Production and Comprehension
- Language Development
- Compilation and Analysis of Naturalistic Language Corpora (Speech, Text, Child-Directed Speech)
Research Description
I study how language abilities emerge with experience across the lifespan, including language comprehension, production, and reading. I use varied methods and measures, including language comprehension and production experiments in adults and children, compilation and analyses of text and speech corpora, and advanced quantitative methods.
Education
PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Assistant Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Affiliate, Center for Social and Behavioral Science
Recent Publications
Macbeth, A., Atagi, N., Montag, J. L., Bruni, M. R., & Chiarello, C. (2022). Assessing language background and experiences among heritage bilinguals. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, [993669]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.993669
Macbeth, A., Bruni, M. R., de la Cruz, B., Erens, J. A., Atagi, N., Robbins, M. L., Chiarello, C., & Montag, J. L. (2022). Using the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR) to Capture the Day-to-Day Linguistic Experiences of Young Adults. Collabra: Psychology, 8(1), [36310]. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.36310
Montag, J. L. (2021). Limited evidence for probability matching as a strategy in probability learning tasks. In The Psychology of Learning and Motivation (pp. 233-273). (Psychology of Learning and Motivation - Advances in Research and Theory; Vol. 74). Academic Press Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.plm.2021.02.005
Sarkis, J. T., & Montag, J. L. (2021). The effect of lexical accessibility on Spanish-English intra-sentential codeswitching. Memory and Cognition, 49(1), 163-180. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-020-01069-7
Montag, J. L. (2020). New insights from daylong audio transcripts of children's language environments. 3005-3011. Paper presented at 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, CogSci 2020, Virtual, Online.
